A fire that inves­ti­ga­tors say started on the side porch of a Wauseon triplex early Sat­ur­day morn­ing, caused dam­age esti­mated at $50,000. Wauseon fire­fight­ers responded just before 1 a.m. to the two-story, wood-frame struc­ture at 131 Beech St. When they arrived, the five per­sons inside the three apart­ments had got­ten …

Betty Jean Powers, 69, of Sandusky, Ohio died Wednesday, September 4, 2013 in University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio. She was born June 2, 1944 in Wauseon, Ohio to the late Frederick E. and Esther (Marksch) Barnes. She married James R. Powers on June 30, 1962 and he survives. …

Susan (Demlow) Burres, age 70, of Wauseon passed away late Wednesday September 4, 2013 surrounded by her loving family after a courageous four year battle with cancer. Prior to her retirement she had been a Property Manager. Mrs. Burres was born on June 30, 1943 in Canton, Ohio the daughter …

Charles Victor “Vic” Malherbe, Sr., age 84, of Bryan, passed from this world early Wednesday, August 28, 2013, with family at his beside, while in rehabilitation at Genesis Healthcare in Bryan. Vic was a mechanical engineer and owned his own real estate agency, “Flying M Realtors”, in Arizona for many …

Robert “Bob” H. Brandt, 71, of Montpelier passed away early Thursday morning at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Ft. Wayne, following a brief illness.  He was born on November 9, 1941 in Bryan to Robert S. and Josephine (Pignataro) Brandt.  Bob graduated from Montpelier High School in 1959.  On August 21, 1965 he …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Bay­town, Texas man in con­nec­tion with a string of bur­glar­ies in Pulaski [pull-a SKY] Town­ship. 22 year old Travis L. Hicks hasn’t been liv­ing in the area all that long, accord­ing to Steve Towns. The sher­iff told the Bryan Times …

It could be a long cold win­ter for the Huber Opera House and Civic Cen­ter. The hot water boiler there is at least forty years old accord­ing to direc­tors, and it’s just plain shot. They say it’s got a huge crack in it and it leaks water faster than it …

The Amer­i­can Heart Asso­ci­a­tion (AHA) is spon­sor­ing the North­west Ohio Heart Walk on Sat­ur­day in Napoleon. More than 150 peo­ple will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in the event which starts with reg­is­tra­tion at 8 a.m. tomor­row morn­ing in Napoleon. The walk will begin at 9 a.m. and refresh­ments will be offered along …

Stu­dents and staff at St. Anthony’s School in Colum­bus Grove were evac­u­ated Wednes­day after­noon after a gas leak was dis­cov­ered nearby. The Put­nam County Sheriff’s Office says stu­dents and staff were evac­u­ated by bus to Colum­bus Grove Local Schools around 12:30 as a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure while the leak was repaired. …

Marie C. Best, age 94, of Edon, Ohio, went to be with her Lord at 6:57 A.M on Tuesday, September 3, 2013, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio, knowing that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. To her family she …